Word: canadians
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...Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) makes its impact each September by showcasing U.S. prestige product with Oscar-encrusted casts and international movies from world-class directors. It doesn't get much ink for its effort to promote Canadian movies, though heaven knows it's got a lot of them: 81 films (most of them shorts) out of the 349 on offer this year, or 23% of the entries. But the emphasis on local product is widely seen as an affirmative action project with little impact beyond its borders...
...Canada's star auteurs have excellent new movies in this year's TIFF: Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Maddin's My Winnipeg. How Canadian are they...
...EASTERN PROMISES The new melodrama from David Cronenberg, the Canadian director with three decades of weird thrills on his résumé, has the vibe of his last one, A History of Violence. Viggo Mortenson is again a charismatic mystery man involved with organized crime. This time, in a script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), it's the Russian mob in London. Naomi Watts plays the innocent trapped in a toxic...
...VALLEY OF ELAH Canadian Paul Haggis premiered Crash here in 2004. Later it won the Oscar for Best Picture. His new one details the search for a vanished Iraq war vet by his parents and a detective. Oscar winners Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron star...
...What are you hoping to see this year? I'm interested in seeing Fugitive Pieces but I'll see that afterwards. I'm looking forward to seeing more documentaries and more Canadian film content...